Have they given a reason why these shows aren’t still on the air without writers, like they did during the last strike?

Conan O’Brien pretty famously did that during the 2007 WGA strike. There was nothing for him to do so, between voicing his support for the strike, he did shit like seeing how long he could spin his wedding ring on his desk or played production equipment like the camera switcher. A lot of it was hilarious, but I don’t…

Can’t wait for the sound design to be endless rumblings of atomic explosions or some shit that makes the dialog unintelligible.

She’s repeatedly interacted with openly fascist and neo-Nazi accounts in “good faith” on Twitter. Those people aren’t being hateful because they want a “better world,” which is why Grimes is such a fucking idiot.

It’s just a couple sentences out of a huge interview that only has one question about the Flash movie in it. Shannon does reveal he was on set for less than two weeks, so apparently Zod doesn’t have a big role in the movie. 

If 60% of ignorant people, who have zero knowledge of the science and process, decide that something that does not affect them in the slightest is “icky” then we can just go ahead and ban it?

Snider tried to walk it back today after he was dropped from the San Francisco Pride Parade.

Snider made a statement today:

Derivative? If derivative was a copyright violation then music couldn’t exist. You should really look at Gaye’s estate who keeps trying to sue high profile people for basic chord progressions. The Blurred Lines lines case was a travesty and luckily that precedent has been ignored going forward.

I’m not an Ed Sheeran fan, and definetely not a Robin Thicke fan, but at least this jury got it right. I adore Marvin Gaye’s, and his collaborator’s, music but his family/estate has turned into a vampire of trying to make money off him. The Blurred Lines verdict was horribly, horribly wrong and the only circuit…

The current Lucasfilm division must hold some kind of record for announcing films and then shelving them. They’ve run through a swath of the biggest directors and producers in the business and can’t even get into preproduction for a film that moves anything forward. 

I think you miss the point of the article. Kurtz was by far the most influential creative in making Empire as critically lauded as it was, and then it fell off the cliff into RotJ without his involvement. Marcia Lucas, as amazing of editor as we she was, wasn’t able to stop George from being more concerned with the…

That is a completely baseless guess, yes. More likely, his family wants privacy. It was obviously serious, and a stroke or aneurysm would fit that bill. With either there would be the question if was going to recover at all, and to what degree, and it’s entirely reasonable for his family to want privacy as that is…

Wow, you’re a moron. 

If we’re going to be “real” we have no idea what changes Ortega made and if they actually were improvements. Oh, and while we’re being “real” this was a couple of comedy writers making jokes. It’s a clickbait nothing burger.

Jesus Christ, people. These are clearly jokes and outlets (like this one) are trying to make it into “scapegoating” for clicks. 

Same. His Red Hand Files post about “cancel culture” was facile and naïve.

So I can see it happen where a dickhead studio exec shits out an AI generated genre story then passes it to a writer to polish up for little to no pay and no credit.

We actually use them at my small company, which can’t afford a dedicated marketing department, to pump out IG posts, quick blog posts and stuff like that already. There’s quite a few that are good at that, pull related hashtags, etc. It replaces the monotony of having to daily come up with short blurbs about stuff…

The Thick of It wasn’t a WGA show, so I’m not sure what rules apply in the UK writers union, but reading about the show the cast were actually the writers. They wrote the teleplays in a writer’s room setup. From what I’m reading about 80% of the show was scripted and 20% improv, which was still riffing off the script…